JASPE2 8(1) 1N-l4N 1-144 1R-78R (1993) H February 1993 Ill I I Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometn/ Including Atomic Spectrometry Updates CONTENTS ~ NEWS AND VIEWS 1 N Editorial-Judith Egan-Shuttler 2N Atomic Spectrometry Viewpoint-R Sam Houk 6N Conference Report-Rx Cox 8N 1 1 N 14N Papers in Future Issues Book Reviews-Michael H. Ramsey W Perkins H. T Delves and Phil Potts Diary of Conferences and Courses PAPERS 1 19 25 35 41 45 51 59 65 71 79 85 89 93 103 109 Interferences in Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. A Review -E Hywel Evans Jeffrey J Giglio I sotope Ratio Measu I ement of Lead Neodymium and Neodym ium-Sama rium Mixtures Hafnium and Hafnium-Lutetium Mixtures With a Double Focusing Multiple Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer-Andrew J Walder I Platzner Philip A Freedman Preliminary Assessment af Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Multi-element Determination in Silicates-John G Williams and Kym E Janiis Optimization and Use of Flow Injection Vapour Generation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Arsenic Antimony and Mercury in Water and Sea-water at Ultratrace Levels-Andreas Stroh Uwe Vollkopf Figures of Merit for Two-step Furnace Atomization Plasma Emission Spectrometry-K E Finders Ohlsson Ralph E Sturgeon Scott N Willie Van T Luong Differentiation Between Organic and Inorganic Chlorine by Electrothermal Vaporization Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Application to the Determination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Waste Oils-Peter Richner Samuel Wunderli Applications of Ultrasonic Nebulization in the Analysis of Petroleum and Petrochemicals by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry-Robert I Botto Evaluation of a Modified Electrothermal Vaporization Sample Introduction System for the Analysis of Liquids by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry-J M Ren.Eric D Salid Evaluation of a Linear-flow Torch for Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry-Norman N Sesi Paul J Galley Gary M Hieftje Development of an Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometer for the Hydride-forming Elements-Warren T Corns Peter B Stockwell Les Ebdon Steve J Hill Simple Nitric Acid Dissolution Method for Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Analysis of Atmospheric Aerosol Samples Collected by a Berner- type Low-pressure Impactor-Tuomo A Pakkanen Risto E Hiilamo Willy Maenhaut Behaviour of Cadmium Cobalt and Lead in Chlorine-containing Organic Solvents in Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry-Emil Tserovsky Sonja Arpadjan lrina Karadjova Determination of Impurities in Germanium Tetrachloride Germanium Dioxide and High-purity Germanium by Zeeman-effect Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry-E Sei7timenti G Mazzetto E Milella Determination of Scandium Yttrium and Eight Rare Earth Elements in Silicate Rocks and Six New Geological Reference Materials by Simultaneous Multi- element Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry With Zeeman-effect Background Correction-Joy G Sen Gupta Rapid Furnace Programmes for the Slurry-Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Determination of Chromium Lead and Copper in Diatomaceous Earth-Ignacio Lopez Garcia Jesirs Arroyo Cortez Manuel Hernandez Cordoba Effect of Surfactants in Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry With Pneumatic Nebulization Influence of Hydrophobic Chain Length-Ana I Ruiz Antonio Canals Vincente Hernandis continued on rnsrde back cover 0267-9477C199311 1 - 8 Typeset by Burgess Thames View Abingdon Oxfordshire Printed in Great Britain by PAGE3ROS’ Page Bros.Norwich115 119 127 131 133 137 Sensitive 'One Drop' Flame Atomic Absorptiometric Determination of Cadmium in Botanical Samples Using Direct Nebulization of Chloroform Extract-lsao Kojima Shiny Kondo Determination of Butyltin Compounds in River Sediment Samples by Gas Chromatography-Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Following In Situ Derivatization With Sodium Tetraethylborate-Yong Cai Spyridon Rapsomanikts Meinrat 0 Andreae Accurate Determination of Selenium in the Presence of Iron by Deuterium Arc Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry-Sunil Jai Kumar S. Gangadharan CUMULATIVE AUTHOR INDEX INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS IUPAC PUBLICATIONS ON NOMENCLATURE AND SYMBOLISM ATOMIC SPEC~f"VlETRY 1 UPDATE Environmental Analysis-Malcolm S. Cresser Janet Armstrong Jennifer Cook John R. Dean Peter Watkins Mark Cave 45R References Hollow Cathode Lamps WHY PAY A FORTUNE GBC Scientific Equipment U.K Ltd. 13 Frederick Sanger Road The Surrey Research Park Guildford Surrey GU2 5YD Tei 0483 304988 Fax 0483 303071